### The Strategy
Delivered to the **BSU Journalist Society**, this talk draws from my experience as a Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Teacher. The strategy focuses on equipping future journalists with the 'Cognitive Armor' needed to navigate a landscape filled with state-sponsored disinformation and political pressure. In a country where doing your job as a journalist can be a life-threatening mission, this talk moves beyond basic fact-checking to explore the deeper ethics of resilience, the "Truthiness Check" as a survival tool, and the high-stakes responsibility of being a truth-seeker in the modern perimeter.

### Core Workshop Topics
- **Deconstructing Disinformation:** Identifying the mechanics of fake news and coordinated inauthentic behavior.
- **The Journalist's Perimeter:** Navigating safety and ethical boundaries in a high-pressure political environment.
- **Media Literacy as Defense:** Transitioning from passive consumption to active, verified orchestration of information.
- **Verification Protocols:** Advanced strategies for cross-referencing and validating sources before publication.
- **The Future of the Press:** Exploring what it means to aspire to truth-telling when the targets are real and the risks are high.
- **AI & The Newsroom:** How emerging technologies impact both the creation of disinformation and the tools used to combat it.